On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:42:26PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote: > Interesting -- that's pretty much exactly the symptoms I had: if it > actually made it past the POST, it booted and ran with no problems, > but it only did that about one in twelve attempts.
Makes me wonder if the south bridge or some of the circuitry connected to it is going bad. I should probably put the 32GB into the 4 empty sockets on my machine (same motherboard, just the 3960X instead of 3920). Then I would have 64GB. > I expect to have some high-end components that I can't use in the near > future... > > At the moment I'm looking at the AMD Ryzen 3800X 3.9GHz eight-core / > sixteen-thread CPU, the Asus Prime X570-Pro AM4 ATX motherboard, and > the Corsair LPX Vengeance 4x16G = 64G total. With any luck I can just > migrate my audio card (Asus Xonar STX Essence), bluray drive, power > supply, and perhaps even my CoolerMaster case. I haven't decided > whether to use the old video card or try for one that will drive > UHD 4K resolution -- the latter requiring a new monitor, too. Might > be better just to start with the new equipment and see how easy or > hard it is to get Arch up and running, then decide about the video. Well you can always upgrade the video card later if needed. Audio card should not be a problem to move over as should the bluray drive. Any recent power supply should have ATX 24 pin power and 8 pin 12V power which should do just fine. And the case should be fine too, given both would be standard ATX boards. The only component I had trouble getting was the motherboard. Canada computers was out, so I ordered from newegg.ca, and then they canceled the order given they apparently had the inventory count wrong, so I ordered from isanek.com and next day got a message that the box had got crushed in the warehouse so they weren't shipping it, so then I made another order from newegg.ca who had apparently got more in stock, and they finally shipped it a couple of days later, after which it took 10 days to ship from california. Sheesh. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
